Static Websites

S3 can be used to host static websites.

Cannot use dynamic content such as PHP, .Net etc.

Automatically scales.

You can use a custom domain name with S3 using a Route 53 Alias record.

When using a custom domain name the bucket name must be the same as the domain name.

Can enable redirection for the whole domain, pages, or specific objects.

URL is: <bucketname>.s3-website-.amazonaws.com.

Requester pays does not work with website endpoints.

Does not support HTTPS/SSL.

Returns an HTML document.

Supports object and bucket level redirects.

Only supports GET and HEAD requests on objects.

Supports publicly readable content only.

To enable website hosting on a bucket, specify:

An Index document (default web page).

Error document (optional).

Difference between endpoints

Difference between endpoints

Key Difference

REST API Endpoint

Website Endpoint

Access Control

Supports both public and private content

Supports only publicly readable content

Error message handling

Returns an XML-formatted error response

Returns an HTML document

Redirection support

Not applicable

Supports both object-level and bucket-level redirects

Requests support

Supports all bucket and object operations

Supports only GET and HEAD requests on objects

Responses to GET and HEAD requests at the root of the bucket

Returns a list of the object keys in the bucket

Returns the Index document that is specified in the website configuration

SSL support

Supports SSL connections

Does not support SSL connections

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